Logistics group Peterson SBS has agreed a 17 year lease on an 82,000 sq ft of industrial space at Edzell Business Base in Kincardineshire.

Peterson SBS already has a 73,000 sq ft warehouse on the Angus site.

Property brokers FG Burnett said the deal is believed to be the largest industrial letting in Scotland in the past six months.

Edzell Business Base, based just outside of Laurencekirk, is on the site of the former RAF Edzell air base

The base, which had been used by the RAF in the Second World War and from 1960 to its decommissioning in 1996 by the US Navy, finally closed in 2007.

Around £4 million was then made available through the Central Challenge Fund to support the Edzell Task Force, Angus and Aberdeenshire Councils, in generating new employment opportunities when the base closed in 1997.

A settlement of 150 servicemen homes within the site was redeveloped into what is now the village of Edzell Woods.

The bulk of the former air base site, covering 444 acres, was then bought out by Carnegie Base Services (CBS), a subsidiary of Carnegie Fuels, for redevelopment as a business park.

CBS says it has around 300 acres of land yet to be developed at the site.

Around 100 people are now employed at Edzell Business Base, which is also home to 35 companies, including Ramco Oilfield Services, Geokey, Hunting and Carnegie Fuels.